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Charming Billy (French language Edition)

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Charming Billy (French language Edition)

by Alice McDermott

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Paris: Quai Voltaire, 1999. Paperback. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Blue trade paperback with wrap-around illustrated dj. Well bound, clean and unmarked. Text in French, English title was kept. An attractive volume.

Synopsis

Alice McDermott is a novelist and short story writer who won the national Book Award for Fiction in 1998 with her perceptive novel, Charming Billy . In it, Billy Lynch has just passed away, and as forty-seven of his best friends and family gather; it is revealed that he died from alcoholism. Charming Billy spans three generations of Irish Americans living in Queens, NY, from the 1940’s to the end of the twentieth century. The unnamed narrator is the grown daughter of Billy’s cousin Dennis. As the friends gather to comfort his widow they begin to trade stories of his immense charm, poetic gentle soul and his famous humor. The book explores problems that characterized the working-class Irish in that time period, such as poverty, fading identity and alcoholism. A superbly written, captivating tale.

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Bookseller
North Country Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
006093
Title
Charming Billy (French language Edition)
Author
Alice McDermott
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Very Good Plus
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Quai Voltaire
Place of Publication
Paris
Date Published
1999
Bookseller catalogs
French Language;

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General used, collectible and antiquarian books. Also paper, ephemera and posters. I am now in my 14th year of full-time book selling.

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